Pre-school and kindergarten Books
Practical Pre-School Books Planning for Learning Through Food
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Practical Pre-School Books Supporting Children with EAL in the Early Years:
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£18.99
Practical Pre-School Books Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)
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£19.95
National Association for the Education of Young Children Spotlight on Young Children and Families
Book SynopsisSuccessful and effective preschool teachers use creative, engaging approaches to support the development and learning of every child in the classroom. The highly relevant and practical articles in this volume, drawn from recent issues of NAEYC’s journal Young Children, offer research-based, developmentally appropriate strategies that preschool teachers can use or adapt for their work with young children and families. Each article celebrates and informs the work of preschool teachers.Table of ContentsIntroduction/ Ruth Ann Halacka Ball Understanding Families: Applying Family Systems Theory to Early Childhood Practice/ Linda Garris Christian Partnerships for Learning: Conferencing with Families/ Holly Seplocha Sharing the Care of Infants and Toddlers/ Amy Laura Dombro and Claire Lerner Mapping Family Resources and Support/ Tess Bennett Creating Safe, Just Places to Learn for Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents/ James W. Clay A Team Approach: Supporting Families of Children with Disabilities in Inclusive Programs/ Louise A. Kaczmarek Closing the Gap: Culture and the Promotion of Inclusion in Child Care/ Jennifer Bradley and Peris Kibera Reading Their Worlds: Working with Diverse Families to Enhance Children’s Early Literacy Development/ Rosario Ordoñez-Jasis and Robert W. Ortiz Leave No Parent Behind: Three Proven Strategies Leaps and Bounds: Preparing Parents for Kindergarten/ Michelle Rhodes, Billie Enz, and Marilyn LaCount Home Connections to Learning: Supporting Parents as Teachers/ Yvette Mass and Kathleen Ann Cohan Virtual Pre-K: Connecting Home, School, and Community/ Alicia Narvaez, Jessica Feldman, and Christopher Theriot Family Involvement in an International School: Piloting a Parent-Teacher Reading Group/ Gail Wentworth Resources for Supporting and Involving Families in Meaningful Ways Reflecting, Discussing, Exploring: Questions and Follow- Up Activities/ Susan Friedman
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Waldorf Early Childhood Association North America A Child's Seasonal Treasury
Book SynopsisFor a child to feel at home in the world and to experience the oneness of the universe, there is no better way than through nature and the arts. This book is a treasure trove of timeless songs, crafts, verses and recipes for seasonal treats, to bring joy to the process of learning, both for young children and the adults who care for them.A revised and expanded edition.
£24.00
Waldorf Early Childhood Association North America Birth to Three in Education and Care: Rudolf
Book SynopsisA collection of illuminating writings on early childhood education, with contributions from Susan Weber, Jane Swain, Deborah Laurin, Magdalena Taurim and other early childhood professionals. The essays draw on the wisdom of Rudolf Steiner and Emmi Pikler and their profound insights into early years development. The Pikler approach is based on a kind and respectful relationship between an adult and infant, through tender care moments, a naturally paced motor development, free movement and uninterrupted play. This book offers useful insights on caregiver interactions with infants and toddlers as well as exploring the ways in which Waldorf early childhood educators combine the practical Pikler approach with Steiner theories about development.
£14.39
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Animal ABC for Children of All Ages
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Looking for Learning Mark Making
Book SynopsisLooking for Learning: Mark Making is a full-colour, practical guide linked to current policy and the EYFS framework. Laura England, creator of Little Miss Early Years, uses theory, cases studies, real-life images and accessible ideas to inspire child-led learning using mark making.This book will help you spark children's natural curiosity in seeing what happens when they make marks with their fingers, bodies and toys, as well as materials from nature and from your art supplies. From drawing around shadows and swirling paint in water, to printing animal footprints, Laura England, creator of Little Miss Early Years, provides a wealth of creative ideas for incorporating mark making into all child-led play, both indoors and outside. Developing mark making and building language skills are crucial as young children begin to build their confidence in communicating. This dip-in-and-out book is linked to the Characteristics of Effective Learning and presents real-lif
£12.34
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Time to Go to Nursery
Book SynopsisFrom leading Early Years expert Penny Tassoni MBE, Time To... picture books use simple words and colourful illustrations to help young children understand all-important everyday skills. Featuring practical advice and tips for practitioners, carers and parents, these books will help you explore positive behaviour with children in a fun and friendly way._______________Starting nursery is a big step, so most children will feel nervous at first. This charming book explains what the day will look like, from saying goodbye to parents to meeting other children and learning new things. It shows children what exciting activities might be on offer, like dressing up in fabulous outfits or playing outdoors on tricycles.With simple-to-read text and delightful full-colour illustrations by Mel Four, Time to Go to Nursery helps children feel confident about going to nursery and reminds them that someone will always be there to help if they''re unsure._______________<Trade ReviewTracing the likely schedules and events in a typical nursery day, whether you are reading to a toddler or reading with an older child, this is a great hand-holder for children (and their grown ups!) -- Book Adventurers * Maggie and Rose *
£8.16
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 50 Fantastic Ideas for CoRegulation
Book Synopsis_______________The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5. Each activity features step-by-step guidance, a list of resources, and a detailed explanation of the skills children will learn. Creative, simple, and highly effective, this series is a must-have for every Early Years setting._______________Co-regulation is the process when children develop the ability to manage emotions, responses, and impulses both in mind and body (self-regulation) through connection with nurturing and reliable caregivers. Children need to understand their own feelings and those of others, and learn to regulate their behaviour accordingly. One of the key ways children learn to self-regulate is through co-regulation. With modelling, support and nurture, practitioners can learn to co-regulate alongside the children so that they can develop those important sk
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 50 Fantastic Ideas for Tuff Trays
Book Synopsis_______________The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5. Each activity features step-by-step guidance, a list of resources, and a detailed explanation of the skills children will learn. Creative, simple, and highly effective, this series is a must-have for every Early Years setting.The tuff tray is a staple resource that is often abandoned or underused in early years settings. However, when used effectively, a tuff tray can enhance a child''s learning through its versatile usage, such as messy play or as enhancements to support themes and ideas that are being explored. A simple tuff tray provocation can offer many learning opportunities to help a child progress and develop, as its sensory play approach promotes open-ended investigations and problem solving. 50 Fantastic Ideas for Tuff Trays is packed full of exciting activities
£12.34
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Looking for Learning Loose Parts
Book SynopsisLooking for Learning: Loose Parts won Highly Commended in the Creative Play Awards 2019 for Teaching Resources.Looks for Learning: Loose Parts is a full-colour, practical guide to inspire child-led learning that''s linked to to current policy and the EYFS framework. As each child progresses through their learning journey, Early Years practitioners are expected to identify and understand what learning is taking place in every activity that a child is involved in. Laura England, creator of Little Miss Early Years, uses her wealth of experience as an Early Years teacher to explore the learning that takes place when a child is tinkering with loose parts, including tinker trays filled with nuts and bolts, pompoms and play dough to combine, construct and investigate with.Loose parts are natural or synthetic materials and resources that have no pre-planned use; they can be moved, combined with other resources, lined up, deconstructed and constructed again. They can
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Foundations of Mathematics: An Active Approach to
Book SynopsisFoundations of Mathematics outlines seven strands of practice which underpin successful mathematical development inchildren aged 3-7. Early years mathematics specialists, Carole and Judith, draw on their experience of working with early years practitioners, including consultants and advisers, across the UK and internationally. The book is completely up-to-date and embeds the Revised Early Years Foundation Stage throughout the book. The book brims with multi-sensory ideas that will trigger children's curiosity, measuring using sand mousse, hunting for buried treasure and building secret dens outdoors. There are: - activities that involve playing and exploring, - games to make learning active, and - experiences to develop creative and critical thinking. Alongside these practical experiences and activities are clear explanations of the reasoning behind the ideas with clear guidance on the role of the practitioner and 'Home Challenges' to promote the engagement of families. The authors provide straightforward advice to support the development of a mathematically-enriched learning environment and ideas to help children transfer learning into their own child-initiated play, to build a genuine and solid foundation for mathematics.Trade ReviewThis amazingly useful and informative book gives practical and easy-to-follow tips for use in the classroom. The accompanying photographs and suggested activities are excellent. -- Deborah Choueka * Early years practitioner *Maths has often been an area in which we have needed to develop further - this book did this, for example, shape cutting when sandwich making, taking photos of children's fingers counting (rather than objects). Lots of ideas to use throughout the rooms. Really visual, easy read for staff. -- Rachel Thomas * Manager, Portico Day Nurseries Ltd *An engaging and well structured book which has been pitched perfectly for an early years teacher. The visual nature of the different chapters allows practitioners to dip in and out. There is a plethora of varied activities permitting teachers to formulate plans, or simply give children different opportunities to play and explore. -- James Sharrod * Bright Horizons *Table of ContentsIntroduction \ 1. All About Number \ 2. Doing Calculations \ 3. Working with Shapes \ 4. Learning to Measure \ 5. Solving Problems \ 6. Collecting and Sorting \ 7. Stories and Rhymes \ 8. Maths Outdoors
£22.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Take Action on Distraction
Book SynopsisUnderstand attention and how it works to help children improve and self-regulate their focus. Take action on distraction and never battle for children's attention again!- Has a child ever asked you a question that you explained three minutes ago?- Do you work with children who fidget constantly or stare into space and you're unsure if they're listening?- Do children in your setting flit from one activity to another without persisting at anything?If this sounds familiar to you then you're in the right place. Written by experts in psychology and neuroscience, Take Action on Distraction helps you understand how attention works and shows you how you can work positively with all children in early years and primary settings to improve their focus and concentration. Discover accessible insights from research, practical tips for your classroom and reflective questions to discuss with children and colleagues, all helping you to create a calmer, happier and more effective learning environment. I began reading this book in the morning and could not put it down until I had finished the final chapter! Essential reading for anyone intent on creating a positive learning environment for children to help them focus and learn. Dr Neil Leitch, OBE, FRSA - Chief Executive, Early Years Alliance
£17.10
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 50 Fantastic Ideas for Circle Time
Book SynopsisThe 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5. Each activity features step-by-step guidance, a list of resources, and a detailed explanation of the skills children will learn. Creative, simple, and highly effective, this series is a must-have for every Early Years setting.Circle time stimulates learning in all areas of development from the improvement of social skills and positive relationships to encouraging children to listen to each other within a caring and respectful environment. Judith Harries brings together creative ideas for circle time where learning can be shared and music and drama can be enjoyed.The book includes circle time activities and games that cover all of the Early Learning Goals through the sharing of thoughts, feelings and experiences. It can also be used across the curriculum, including helping children with literacy and mathematics thr
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 50 Fantastic Ideas for Block Play
Book SynopsisThe 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5. Each activity features step-by-step guidance, a list of resources, and a detailed explanation of the skills children will learn. Creative, simple, and highly effective, this series is a must-have for every Early Years setting. Block play stimulates learning in all areas of development: intellectual, physical, social, emotional and communication as well as early maths and literacy. In this book, experienced author and practitioner Judit Horvath has put together a variety of exciting and challenging ideas that cover them all. Some activities include cheap, easily sourced props such as play dough, pebbles, fairy lights and flowers to capture the children's imaginations, while others prompt more challenging block play to encourage the development and understanding of complex patterns, such as classifying, sequencing, counting, fractions and
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HarperCollins Publishers Collins International Maths Foundation Plus
Book SynopsisCollins International Maths Foundation and Foundation Plus provide inspirational, fun and age-appropriate learning for children in early years and kindergarten classes.The materials have been developed in consultation with expert practitioners to be easy to use in the classroom and to support children following a range of early years curricula and who are preparing for their first year of primary education in an international school, including schools following the Cambridge Assessment International Education primary framework.The course introduces young children to maths concepts in an age-appropriate way through topic-based discovery and activity-based learning, with plenty of opportunities to explore maths through games and hands-on exploration. Careful progression ensures children develop the skills they need to be ready for maths in their first year of primary and beyond.Each level comprises Activity Books A, B and C one for each term supported by a carefully selected collection
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Oxford University Press Inc Sesame Street A Transnational History
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface INTRODUCTION Culture-Free TV? CHAPTER 1 Domestic Origins: The Workshop's Business Model CHAPTER 2 Ensuring Early Success: Strategies to Conquer the International Market CHAPTER 3 Ban and Bother: The Workshop's troubles in the UK CHAPTER 4 Negotiating Local Needs: Sesame Street in West Germany CHAPTER 5 Other Childhoods: Sesame Street in Scandinavia CONCLUSION Narrow Vision: Looking Back at a Global Success Consulted Archival Material Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Technology and Critical Literacy in Early
Book SynopsisNow in its second edition, this popular text explores classrooms where technology and critical literacies are woven into childhood curricula and teaching. Using real-world stories, it addresses what ICTs afford critical literacy with young children, and how new technologies can be positioned to engage in meaningful and authentic learning. Concise but comprehensive, the text provides strategies, theoretical frameworks, demonstrations of practice, and resources for teachers.Updated with discussions of media literacy and new pedagogical tools, the second edition features new classroom examples and experiences that highlight the ways in which critical literacy, technology and media literacy come together in everyday life in the early childhood classroom. The inviting examples model how to use the interests and inquiry questions of young learners as a springboard for creating a critical curriculum. Each chapter includes Reflection Points, pedagogical invitations, and Resource BoxeTable of ContentsIntroductionMapping out the Terrain of This Book Pedagogical Features 1 Setting a Context for Exploring Critical andMedia Literacies Using Technology Differential Access and Connectivity New Technologies as Tools for Engaging in Critical Literacy Work Key Aspects of Critical Literacy Who We Are Extending Children’s Repertoire of Literacy and Communications Practices New Technologies Does Not Equal Critical Literacy PART ONEOne Teacher’s JourneySubtle and Explicit Uses of Technology Re-Designing My Little Pony Using Technology as a Teaching and Communicative Tool 2 Building Relationships Between Home and School With the Use of TechnologyTeaching and Learning with Pre-K and K Children: The First Month Establishing a Home/School Partnership Through Documenting and Sharing Learning3 Beginning With Coming Together as a Community to Create Spaces for Critical Literacy Hello My Names Are/ Hello My Names Are NotNames Are Not Just Names Seamlessly Creating a Generative Curriculum4 Reading With Text and Against Text With Young Children Reading With the TextReading Against the TextI’m Glad I’m a Boy! I’m Glad I’m a Girl! Reading With and Against Froodle Discussing Froodle Lessons from Kushi 5 Working With Multimedia Text and TechnologyLayered Response to a Multimedia Text Where Was Their Home? Gloves for the Homeless PART TWOFurther Insights into Teaching with Technology 6 Yes We Can!: Using Technology as a Tool for Social Action Building From Children’s Inquiry Questions Travel Trunks: Using the Internet as Text and Tool Creating Space for Social Action 7 Our Families Don’t Understand English! What Is a Podcast? Creating 100% KidsIntroducing Subrina Exclusion and Inclusion Negotiating Identities/Growing Literacies Creating New Spaces for Participation The Final Show Children’s Construction of Identity 8 What About Antarctica? Reading the Clustr Map Further Explorations The 100% Kids Clustr Map Columbia Gets a Dot 9 The Tomato Trials Backbreaking Work? Critically Reading the Web The Trials Begin Tomato Trial Findings In Retrospect 10 Desires, Identities, and New Communication Technologies Meaningful and Sustained Learning Learning From Our Students
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Taylor & Francis Challenging Early Learning
Book SynopsisWhat are the goals of Early Years education? A lot of people ask this question and receive answers ranging from keeping children safe; introducing them to the values of society; encouraging a love of language; giving them experience of socialising, harmonising and behaving appropriately. This book shares the best strategies to help children grow into even more curious, resilient, happy, articulate and thoughtful learners.Challenging Early Learning takes James Nottingham's tried and tested and acclaimed 'learning to learn' methodology and applies it to teaching three- to seven-year-olds. Each chapter includes: Colourful and stimulating learning activities that will help children learn how to learn. Practical 'Now Try This' sections that encourage readers to think about current practice and explore new ideas. A Review section that focuses on building a broad tool kit of teaching strategies. Covering a ranTable of ContentsForeword Preface The Language of Learning Chapter 1: Creating the Conditions for Early Learning 1.0 Challenging Early Learning 1.1 Encouraging Growth in A Nursery 1.2 Learning How to Learn 1.3 The ASK Model 1.4 ASK Model: Attitudes 1.4.1 The Marshmallow Experiment 1.5 ASK Model: Skills 1.6 Learning Detectives 1.7 Chapter Summary Chapter 2: Children’s Response to Challenge 2.0 Which Path Would You Choose? 2.1 Why Do Children Pick the Easier Path? 2.2 Persuading Children Out of Their Comfort Zone 2.3 The Learning Challenge 2.4 Learning Challenge Stage 1: Identify Concepts 2.5 Learning Challenge Stage 2: Creative Cognitive Conflict 2.5.1 Wobblers 2.5.2 Comparisons 2.5.3 Prepared Questions 2.6 Learning Challenge Stage 3: Construct Understanding 2.6.1 Concept Targets 2.6.2 Ranking 2.6.3 Venn diagrams 2.6.4 Opinion Lines 2.6.5 Opinion Corners 2.7 Learning Challenge Stage 4: Consider the Learning 2.8 Chapter Summary Chapter 3: Developing Dialogue with Young Children 3.0 Using Dialogue to Develop Children’s Language 3.1 Different Types of Talk 3.2 Cumulative Talk 3.3 Disputational Talk 3.4 Exploratory Talk 3.5 Encouraging Exploratory Talk 3.6 Repeating, Reflecting, Rephrasing, and Extending 3.7 Chapter Summary Chapter 4: Engaging Children’s Thinking Skills 4.0 Learning How to Think 4.1 Transporter 4.2 Odd One Out 4.3 That Is What I Was Thinking 4.4 The Three Whys (Men) 4.5 A Reasonable Holiday 4.6 What If? 4.7 Storyboarding 4.8 Fortunately; Unfortunately 4.9 Chapter Summary Chapter 5: Listening, Thinking and Questioning 5.0 Patience for Listening 5.1 Trust and Respect 5.2 Listening and Thinking (rather than Listening and Talking) 5.3 Developing Questioning 5.4 Open Questions 5.5 Socratic Questions 5.6 Who, What, Where, When, Why, How 5.7 Question Stems 5.8 Thinking Progress 5.9 Chapter Summary Chapter 6: Making Progress 6.0 Focus on Progress 6.1 Progress in Terms of The SOLO Taxonomy 6.2 The SOLO Taxonomy and Learning 6.3 The SOLO Taxonomy and The Learning Challenge 6.4 Progress and a Growth Mindset 6.5 Mindset and Praise 6.6 Ways to Praise 6.7 Other Ways to Build a Growth Mindset 6.8 Self Efficacy 6.9 Chapter Summary Chapter 7: Feedback and Learning Goals 7.0 The Impact of Feedback 7.1 What Is Feedback? 7.2 Feedback and Praise 7.3 Learning Goals and Feedback 7.4 Timing 7.5 Sitting Beside Your Children 7.6 Encouraging the Right Type of Feedback 7.7 Seven Steps to Feedback Success 7.8 The Seven Steps to Feedback – Some Final Thoughts 7.9 Chapter Summary Chapter 8: Early Learning Activities Activity 1: What Is a Toy? Activity 2: People Who Help Us Activity 3: The Gingerbread Man Activity 4: Why Is Teddy Feeling Unwell? Activity 5: Decisions, Decisions Activity 6: Shape Activity 7: Fairy Tales Activity 8: Being A Good Friend Appendix 1 Coded Transcript Relating to Section 3.6
£27.99
Taylor & Francis Planning in the Moment with Two and Three Year
Book SynopsisChildren are most engaged â and therefore learn best â when they are following their own interests. In this book, Anna Ephgrave shows how her acclaimed âplanning in the momentâ approach can be used with two and three year olds with dramatic results for both children and staff. It reveals the impact that free-flowing, child-initiated play has on very young childrenâs wellbeing, making them feel safe, secure and consequently helping them to be fully engaged in their learning. The first part of the book clearly explains the principles of child-initiated play and demonstrates how practitioners can create the best possible environment for very young children, also looking at the resources and practices that need to be in place for them to flourish. There is detailed guidance on the role of the practitioner, including how adults should observe childrenâs play, before deciding how â or if â to interact in that moment to ensure that each interaction moves learning forward and supportTrade ReviewWe have a lot of visitors now and I say to them (and to anyone reading this book) – take the leap and have a go. Some of our staff had reservations, but now they are all on board. They have been convinced by what has happened:- The data shows that the children are making outstanding progress The atmosphere is purposeful and busy The behavior management has reduced massively The workload and paperwork has reduced too The staff feel that they really know all the children so much better My main message would be that settings should try this approach in its entirety. Have faith; child-initiated play, with planning in the moment, (if it is done well), will give results that will amaze you. It will also re-ignite your enthusiasm for early childhood education.Helen Clegg, Owner, Staple Hill Stars Preschool, UK.To have such constructive and calm learning episodes happening so organically around the space is a triumph to all the staff at the nursery and indeed [the] approach.Aliye Veli, independent early years consultant and trainer, UK.Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction. 1. Introduction. 2. What Needs to be in Place? 3. An Enabling Environment. 4. The Role of the Adult. 5. The Paperwork. Part 2: In Action. 6. September Diary. 7. October Diary. 8. November Diary. 9. December Diary. 10. January Diary. 11. February Diary. 12. March Diary. 13. April Diary. 14. May Diary. 15. June Diary 16. July Diary. 17. Appendices.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Enhancing Digital Literacy and Creativity
Book SynopsisEnhancing Digital Literacy and Creativity is an exploration of how young children gain digital literacies in âmakerspaces.â The international authors investigate how hands-on experimentation with a variety of materials - from traditional arts and crafts to contemporary digital tools like 3D printers and laser cutters - can aid children in their development of play, creativity and storytelling. From museums to libraries, nursery schools to community centres, this research shows how âmakingâ supports the development of creative skills and introduces concepts to be explored in a variety of environments and contexts.Drawing on examples from around the globe, described by a range of international academics, Enhancing Digital Literacy and Creativity includes chapters on: Virtual reality Museum and library makerspaces Intergenerational making in families Making in schools and nursery settings Assessing learning in makerspaces Links to previous theories Social imagination This book will be a valuable resource for students and researchers in the fields of education and digital literacies; early childhood teacher educators and practitioners; librarians; museum educators; and makerspace staff.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsContributorsChapter 1: The MakEY Project: An IntroductionAlicia Blum-Ross, Kristiina Kumpulainen and Jackie Marsh Chapter 2: Researching Young Children’s Engagement and Learning in Makerspaces: Insights from Post-Vygotskian and Post-Human PerspectivesMichalis Kontopodis and Kristiina Kumpulainen Chapter 3: Makeative Makerspaces: When the Pedagogy is MakeativeKlaus Thestrup and Louisa Haugaard Pedersen Chapter 4: Makerspaces, Multiliteracies and Early Science Education: The Finnish ApproachJenni Vartiainen and Kristiina Kumpulainen Chapter 5: Makerspaces and Virtual RealityDylan Yamada-Rice, Deborah Rodrigues and Justyna Zubrycka Chapter 6: Makerspaces in Formal and Non-Formal Learning Contexts in IcelandKristín Dýrfjörð, Torfi Hjartarson, Anna E. Hreiðarsdóttir, Sólveig Jakobsdóttir, Svanborg R. Jónsdóttir, Skúlína H. Kjartansdóttir, Margrét E. Ólafsdóttir, Svava Pétursdóttir, Gísli Thorsteinsson Chapter 7: Makerspaces in the Making: Reconfiguring Cultures of Facilitation across the Kindergarten and the Science MuseumAlfredo Jornet, Hans Christian Arnseth and Ole Smørdal Chapter 8: Types of Engagement in MakerspacesAnca Velicu and Monica MitarcăChapter 9: Assessment of Learning in STEAM-Focused MakerspacesLouise Kay, Jackie Marsh, David Hyatt, Liz Chesworth, Bobby Nisha, Beth Nutbrown and Bryony OlneyChapter 10: Connecting learning: Parents and young children in museum makerspacesAlicia Blum-Ross and Sonia Livingstone Chapter 11: Teaching for social imagination: Creativity in an early learning makerspace Anne Burke and Abigail Crocker Chapter 12: ConclusionJackie Marsh, Alicia Blum-Ross and Kristiina Kumpulainen Afterword: Reflecting on ProcessKylie Peppler
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Pioneers in Early Childhood Education
Book SynopsisRachel and Margaret McMillan, Maria Montessori and Susan Isaacs have had a major impact on contemporary early years curriculum theory and practice. This insightful book introduces students and practitioners to the ideas, philosophies and writings of these key early thinkers in early childhood education and shows how they relate to quality early years provision today. This new and revised edition introduces another pioneer, Charlotte Mason (18321923), who saw learning as a lifestyle, rather than a means for passing tests and doing a set number of tasks, sentiments which resonate strongly today. The book explores the influences that shaped the ideas, values and beliefs of each pioneer and clearly demonstrates how they have each contributed to our knowledge of young children's learning and development. It then examines these in the context of current policy to highlight the key ideas that practitioners should consider when reflecting on their own practice. Features includTable of ContentsIntroduction PART 1. The early influences 1. From Plato to Froebel PART 2. A history of connections in early childhood education: Five key women pioneers – their roots and legacies 2. Charlotte Mason 3. Rachel and Margaret McMillan 4. Maria Montessori 5. Susan Isaacs PART 3. Contemporary Perspectives 6. The pioneers’ legacies to UK and international policy on early childhood education 7. A Foucauldian perspective of legacies as a "regimes of truth" in the context of neoliberal accountability
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Taylor & Francis Ltd In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia
Book SynopsisReggio Emilia's educational services for 0-6 year olds are widely acclaimed as one of the best systems in the world.Now in an updated second edition, In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia offers a collection of the most important articles, lectures and interviews given by Carlina Rinaldi, who was President of Reggio Children for a decade, and pedagogical director of the Reggio Emilia Infant-toddler Centres and Preschools after working closely with Loris Malaguzzi, Reggio Children founder and inspirer of the Reggio Emilia Approach. She is currently President of Fondazione Reggio Children Centro Loris Malaguzzi.With a full introduction contextualising each piece of work, it offers a unique insight into many of the themes that characterise the early childhood curriculum of Reggio Emilia: participation, documentation and assessment; professional development; organisation; research; creativity; spaces and environments in education, and more. This second edition includes brTable of ContentsIntroduction: our Reggio Emilia Carlina Rinaldi: writings, speeches and interviews, 1984-2004 Staying by the children’s side: the knowledge of educators Participation as communication Malaguzzi and the teachers Documentation and assessment: what is the relationship? Dialogues The space of childhood Issues in educating today Documentation and research Continuity in children’s services Creativity as a quality of thought The construction of the educational project: an interview with Carlina Rinaldi Teachers as researchers: formation and professional development in a school of education The organisation, the method: a conversation with Carlina Rinaldi Crossing boundaries: reflections on Loris Malaguzzi and Reggio Emilia In dialogue with Carlina Rinaldi: a discussion between Carlina Rinaldi, Gunilla Dahlberg and Peter Moss Carlina Rinaldi: writings and speeches, 2007 – 2016 The Loris Malaguzzi International Centre. A metaproject The natural complexity of becoming children LEGO, Reggio Emilia. A Story, a Prize The city of Jerome Bruner A system
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Taylor & Francis Parent Education for the Critical 1000 Days
Book SynopsisAs research in neuroscience increasingly points to the unparalleled influence of the first 1000 days of life from conception to two years of age in determining the baby's life trajectory, the need for high-quality early parenting education delivered by knowledgeable and dedicated professionals becomes ever more apparent.This book describes the global aims of early parenting education. It identifies the key areas that research suggests are important: building a relationship with the unborn and newborn baby; preparing for labour and birth; supporting parents' mental health; protecting the couple relationship across the transition to parenthood; and education for special groups such as same-sex couples, women with fear of birth, prisoners, military wives and parents from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.All practitioners providing early parenting programmes midwives, health visitors, family link workers, children's centre staff and voluntary sector teachers will gaTrade Review"This is a book which is long overdue. It is a must-have resource for anyone involved in teaching/facilitating transition to parenting. Written by one of the leading world experts in the field, it serves as both a guide for practice and an academic text with an up-to-date evidence base that addresses a range of different needs in parental terms." – Lorna Davies, Ara Institute of Canterbury, Christchurch, New ZealandTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Aims of Early Parent Education 3. Effective Parent Educators: Skills and Relationships 4. Supporting Parents’ Prenatal Relationship with their Baby 5. Stress and Relaxation: Education for a Calm Pregnancy 6. Education and Support for Normal Birth 7. Education and Support for Home Birth 8. Education and Support for Women with Fear of Childbirth 9. Debriefing Women following Childbirth: Birth Story Workshops 10. Education and Support for Fathers 11. Education and Support for the Couple Relationship across the Transition to Parenthood 12. Education and Support for Same-Sex Couples 13. Education and Support for Interacting with the Baby: Emotional Regulation and Relationship Learning 14. Education and Support for Breastfeeding 15. Education and Support for Young Mothers 16. Education and Support for Mothers and Fathers in Prison 17. Education and Support for At-Home Parents in Military Families 18. A Note on Education and Support for Parents of Twins 19. A Note on Early Parenting Education for Mothers and Fathers from Minority Communities 20. The Way Forward: Preconception Education and Support
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) A Focus on Addition and Subtraction
Book SynopsisThis innovative text offers a unique approach to making mathematics education research on addition, subtraction, and number concepts readily accessible and understandable to pre-service and in-service teachers of grades Kâ3.Revealing studentsâ thought processes with extensive annotated samples of student work and vignettes characteristic of teachersâ experiences, this book provides educators with the knowledge and tools needed to modify their lessons and improve student learning of additive reasoning in the primary grades. Based on research gathered in the Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP), this engaging, easy-to-use resource features practical resources such as: A close focus on student work, including 150+ annotated pieces of student work, to help teachers improve their ability to recognize, assess, and monitor their studentsâ errors and misconceptions, as well as their developing conceptual understanding; A focus on the OGAP Addition, Subtraction, and Base Ten Number Progressions, based on research conducted with hundreds of teachers and thousands of pieces of student work; In-chapter sections on how Common Core State Standards for Math (CCSSM) are supported by math education research; End-of-chapter questions to allow teachers to analyze student thinking and consider instructional strategies for their own students; Instructional links to help teachers relate concepts from each chapter to their own instructional materials and programs; An accompanying eResource, available online, offers an answer key to Looking Back questions, as well as a copy of the OGAP Additive Framework and the OGAP Number Line Continuum. A Focus on Addition and Subtraction marks the fourth installment of the popular A Focus onâ collection, designed to aid the professional development of pre-service and in-service mathematics teachers. Following from previous volumes on ratios and proportions, multiplication and division, and fractions, this newest addition is designed to bridge the gap between what math education researchers know and what teachers need to know in order to better understand evidence in student work and make effective instructional decisions.Table of Contents Additive Reasoning and Number Sense The OGAP Additive Framework The Development of Counting and Early Number Concepts Unitizing, Number Composition, and Base-Ten Understanding Visual Models to Support Additive Reasoning Developing Whole Number Addition Developing Whole Number Subtraction Additive Situations and Problem Solving Developing Math Fact Fluency
£34.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Supporting Behaviour and Emotions in the Early
Book SynopsisHave you ever wondered why children behave the way they do or why they can become overwhelmed with emotions so quickly? This practical resource has been created to help educators effectively support their children's behaviour and better understand their emotions. The book focuses on the idea that all behaviour is a form of communication and explores central areas such as self-regulation and attachment, offering strategies that can be used to support challenging behaviour. Each chapter includes examples of practice, reflective questions and an activity for the reader to help consolidate their learning and encourage them to become behaviour detectives'. Key topics discussed include: Attachment theory, adverse childhood experiences and the importance of feeling safe and secure in the home and setting. Characteristics of children during conflict situations or moments of challenging behaviour. Developmentally appropriate expectations for chilTrade Review'Fantastic! My new "go to" book about behaviour. Tamsin’s wealth of experience, knowledge and writing style has enabled her to find the perfect balance between theory/research/practical examples to create a really clear companion to reflective practice.Her refreshing and realistic approach recognises the challenges for practitioners and the complex influences on behaviour for the children in their care. As we know there is no quick fix for "behaviour" that we find challenging. But increasing our emotional, mental health and trauma awareness enables us to use a proactive, nurturing, loving pedagogy to develop an ethos that will give adults and children the "best possible chance" of feeling listened to and understood. As Tamsin says and demonstrates in her practical suggestions, by "responding mindfully rather than reacting emotionally" we can improve our practice and each child’s experience incrementally day by day.'Dr Kay Mathieson, international speaker, author and independent early years consultantTable of ContentsIntroduction Feeling safe and secure Why children behave the way they do Realistic expectations Acknowledging and validating feelings Becoming a behaviour detective Strategies to support challenging behaviour Self-regulation and co-regulation Linking behaviour and emotions with schematic play Our ethos and partnerships Concluding remarks
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rethinking Environmental Education in a Climate
Book SynopsisAs the impact of climate change has become harder to ignore, it has become increasingly evident that children will inherit futures where climate challenges require new ways of thinking about how humans can live better with the world. This book re-situates weather in early childhood education, examining people as inherently a part of and affected by nature, and challenges the positioning of humans at the centre of progress and decision-making. Exploring the ways children can learn with weather, this book for researchers and advanced students, works with the pedagogical potential in children's relations with weather as a vital way of connecting with and responding to wider climate concerns.Trade ReviewNever underestimate the power of small talk! This brilliant book demonstrates how ordinary conversations about weather can create extraordinary opportunities for reconfiguring human relationships with nature and the living world. If you are curious about how we can radically reframe our responses to the environmental crisis through education and beyond, this book is for you. Professor Iveta Silova, Associate Dean of Global Engagement at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University.Rooney and Blaise invite us into a lively world of child-weather encounters and offer an important new paradigm for environmental education. This book shows us how learning with children with weather can embrace humility, surprise, and delight, without turning away from troubling uncertainties of a climate changing world. Associate Professor Astrida NeimanisCanada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities, UBC Okanagan Pause, attend, attune, notice – these are the invitations that this extraordinary book offers to readers. Meticulous tracings are presented of weather learning through modalities of doing, walking, writing, making and becoming. Environmental education opens to complexity, vulnerability, and responsibility as we humans come to understand that we are inherently entangled in volatile ecologies and constantly shifting relations with and in the world. This book shows how this urgent work must start in early childhood education. Children’s intimate encounters with weather extend from everyday moments in open spaces and playgrounds to deep time, Indigenous time, colonial time and the ever-present press in these times of human-induced climate change. The authors introduce practices for how we might envisage and work towards new weather worlds and make a significant and fresh contribution to posthuman educational research. Professor Suzanne Gannon, University of Western SydneyIn rethinking climate change as something "already part of children’s lives", this beautiful book offers an alternative mode for engaging with precarious futures and troubled presents. Whilst grappling with big questions, the authors ground us in small moments and micro sensations of how children and adults experience time, place and climate; as dust in nostrils or rain chilling the surface of the skin, for example. It gently guides us away from the certainty and solutions we are often told are required, inviting us instead to reimagine how we might respond to, learn with or listen to a changing climate. This is a poignant yet hopeful book, where hope is offered outside of a framing of mastery or certainty, through a commitment to ongoing-ness and the understanding that "many worlds are possible."Dr Abigail Hackett, Reader, Manchester Metropolitan University.As I read outdoors, the wind strokes my cheek along with the sound of bumblebees buzzing in the sunshine. This book makes you pay attention and participate with weather worlds and contributes to an understanding of how we are inter-connected with other worlds, humans and non-humans. By bringing the weather to the fore, the book invites us to consider planetary well-being and care. In an inquiring and inspiring way, the authors offer an alternative way of thinking, learning, and practicing with all encounters in the field of early childhood and environmental learning. This is a book we cannot do without. Associate Professor Anne Myrstad, UIT - The Arctic University of NorwayThis transformative book brings climate home via everyday weather, cultivating wisdom for new action-relations. Rooney and Blaise elegantly dissolve borders around ‘the environment’, learning and showing relations already in place, which children already know. Rather than seeing ‘the environment’ as a distinct, separate entity, intentionally renewing weather awareness reveals our place within a living, breathing, participative community of more-than-human beings.Associate Professor Sandra Wooltorton, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame. Table of ContentsPart 1: A Weather Learning Project. 1. Introduction. 2. Young children and environmental education. Part 2: Methods - Thinking, moving and writing with weather. 3. Thinking with weather. 4. Walking with weather. 5. Writing small weather stories. Part 3: Relations - Weathering with more-than-human worlds. 6. Bodies, atmospheres and affects. 7. Multi-species weather encounters. 8. Earth and deep weather times. Part 4: Responses – Learning and speculating in a climate change era. 9. Weather learning. 10. Conclusion: An invitation to weather together.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nurturing SelfRegulation in Early Childhood
Book SynopsisNurturing Self-Regulation in Early Childhood explores how young children develop self-regulation and offers practical guidance on helping them to manage their feelings and behaviour. It considers the skills, attitudes and dispositions children need to be able to self-regulate and how their wellbeing and self-esteem can affect their ability to do this.Grimmer and Geens show how schools and settings can adopt an ethos where self-regulation permeates their whole provision. Considering the broad and multifaceted nature of self-regulation and how this key area of development shapes children and their learning, the chapters cover: developing empathy emotion coaching the practitioner as a co-regulator executive function and the sense of self and wellbeing international approaches to promoting self-regulation the role of the adult and environment in encouraging skills for self-regulation working effectively with pareTrade Review'The world of education, most particularly early years has been waiting for this book, which eloquently outlines the importance of nurturing emotional development. The authors carefully outline the theory and practice that best supports children in the growth of self-regulation, essentially underpinned by emotional security, and highlight its importance in both learning and behaviour in the classroom. If only they had been consulted for the recent, currently contested update of the Early Years Foundation Stage. But I am confident, after reading this outstanding text that their time will come. A must read for teachers of all ages and stages.' Dr Pam Jarvis CPsycholHonorary Research Fellow, Leeds Trinity University Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The development of self-regulation 2. International perspectives 3. Sense of self and wellbeing 4. Regulating behaviour 5. Executive function 6. Skills relating to listening, maintaining focus and attention 7. Social development 8. The role of the adult 9. Enabling parents to support their children Summary and Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Challenging Gender Stereotypes in the Early Years
Book SynopsisWhat does gender equity mean for early years practitioners? What are early years settings already doing to promote gender equality, and why is this so important? How can we provide children with a solid basis from which they can grow into people who are not limited by society's expectations of their gender?This is a manual for every early years practitioner who wishes to expand their knowledge and improve their practice around gender stereotyping in the early years. Drawing from the authors' experience developing a public health programme tackling gender stereotypes, it explores the reasons why gender inequality is still an issue, identifies the ways it is perpetuated and provides a framework and practical tools to drive change. The framework includes an audit process to celebrate areas of success and to identify areas for development, alongside a host of suggestions on how to navigate tricky situations in creative, respectful and effective ways. Trade ReviewNPFS wholeheartedly recommend the work of Susie and Barbara. Whether you are an early years parent/carer, practitioner or allied professional – they provide an incredible insight into how gender stereotypes can limit children and how we can reduce them, making positive changes to the lives and experiences of our children and young people.Margaret Wilson, Chair, The National Parent Forum of Scotland respectme, Scotland's Anti-Bullying Service sees gender stereotyping as a critical factor in many relationship, bullying and discrimination situations. This book delivers an invaluable resource for people who care for young children to understand why harmful attitudes towards gender stereotypes and inequalities, often emerging in the early years, can have lifelong impacts if left unchallenged.Lorraine Glass, Policy and Improvement Manager, respectmeAs Scotland gradually wakes up to the long-term social significance of early childhood care and education, this comprehensive and highly accessible guide to tackling gender stereotypes couldn’t be more timely. Essential reading for all early years educators.Sue Palmer, Chair, Upstart ScotlandPreventing violence against women and girls should start in the early years. Susie and Barbara’s work helps practitioners understand the links between VAWG and the gender stereotypes that children are directed towards from an early age; and the significant part they can play in preventing it.Davy Thompson, Campaign Director, White Ribbon ScotlandAfter being part of the documentary No More Boys and Girls I witnessed first hand the impact that gender stereotypes have on our children. Despite a rise in awareness there is still much work to be done and this book is paramount to helping educators make a difference to our children at an early stage – in my experience the earlier we can teach our children about spotting and dealing with stereotypes the better. This clear, practical guide is a must own for early years educators and written by experts in their field.Graham Andre, Assistant Head at Lanesend Primary and teacher featured on No More Boys and GirlsSusie and Barbara are amazing and passionate trainers, who will open your eyes through their knowledge on gender equity. Their insights into this important subject will really challenge you to reflect on and update your practice.Tracey Riseborough, Head of Kinderly LearnA clear, logical and practical approach to addressing gender and other stereotypes in early years settings and why this is so important. A must-read for anyone studying or working in the early years and all early childhood settings.Mary Beare Aust, Lecturer in Early Childhood Education, Institute of Technology CarlowChallenging Gender Stereotypes in the Early Years takes an evidence-informed, intersectional deep dive into gender sterotypes, inequality, and how we can challenge the narrative... As I look up from reading it, I make a mental note that challenging gender stereotypes requires action and commitment from us all, and I already feel better equipped.Rhiann McLean, Children in ScotlandTable of ContentsTitle PageTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAn Important Note on Safety and Self-CareIntroductionPart 1 Key Concepts and Definitions Gender Inequality: What Are We Getting Right? Young Brains: Gender and Child Development How Gender Stereotypes Are Reinforced Part 2 What’s the Harm? Violence Against Women and Girls Man Up! Gender Stereotypes and Male Violence Gendered Bodies Parent Pressure Sexuality and Gender Identity: The Pressure to Conform Learning, Working, Earning Mental Health Gender and the Early Years Workforce Part 3 Auditing Your Practice Bias, and How To Get Over It! Equitable Practice What Parents Can Do and How to Get Them On Board Practice Scenarios A Call to Action Appendix 1: Action ChecklistAppendix 2: Audit TableAppendix 3: Further InformationGlossaryIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd History in the Early Years Teaching Learning in
Book SynopsisHistory in the Early Years is an innovative and accessible guide to helping young children explore the past through their environment, family history and story. This fully revised edition includes guidance on introducing children to the past at the Foundation Stage in school and pre-school settings. Throughout it shows how the requirements of the early years curriculum can be met in innovative ways, and is fully illustrated by case study examples of children''s learning and also supported by recent research.The book will support both new and experienced early years practitioners in developing young children''s sense of identity through history. It encourages practitioners to ensure that history is a significant dimension of early years education and will be essential reading for all teachers in the early and primary years.Trade Review'History in the Early Yearsis a timely response to a real need to support curriculum co-ordinators in primary schools. Hilary Cooper has succeeded in the difficult task of writing a text which provides the necessary theoretical underpinning of good practice and sufficient practical help to translate principles into memorable experiences and valuable outcomes...this book rings with a biblical authority on the subject and adds to the stature of this already highly regarded series.' - Times Educational Supplement'This second book by Hilary Cooper is a pleasure to read ... at present it is the most thorough study of History at Key Stage 1. ... highly recommended.' - Teaching History'History in the Early Years... is the most recent text with a thorough overview of research and practical suggestions for teaching all aspects of history to young children.' - Teaching HistoryTable of ContentsPart I: An Introduction to History: the Foundation Stage 1. Understanding Change Over Time 2. Interpretations of the Past 3. Deductions and Inferences from Sources Part II: History During the First Three Years of School 4. Teaching Children to Understand Concepts of Time and Change 5. Interpretations 6. Deductions from Sources Part 3: Organisation, Planning and Assessment 7. Long Term Planning 8. Planning a Unit of Study Part IV: Three Case Studies 9. Case Study 1: 'Toys and Games, Now and Then' 10. Case Study 2: Year 1 - 'Castles'
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies
Book SynopsisUsing case studies and real situations, this book highlights the important contribution that Foucault and other post-structural theorists can make to research and practice in early childhood services.Trade Review'Provides much interesting and thought provoking reading.' - Early YearsTable of Contents1. Journeys to activism: becoming poststructurally reflective about truth 2. Confronting a 'will to truth': troubling truths of the child poststructurally 3. Mapping classroom meanings: engaging the tactics of deconstruction locally 4. Deliberately practicing for freedom: tactics of rhizoanalysis 5. Seeking the 'Otherwise': re-meeting relations of 'race' in early childhood classroom histories 6. Imagining professional learning for a change: becoming again in critically knowing communities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Knowledge and Understanding of the World in the
Book SynopsisThe Practical Guidance in the Early Years Foundation Stage series will assist practitioners in the smooth and successful implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage.Each book gives clear and detailed explanations of each aspect of Learning and Development and encourages readers to consider each area within its broadest context to expand and develop their own knowledge and good practice.Practical ideas and activities for all age groups are offered along with a wealth of expertise of how elements from the practice guidance can be implemented within all early years settings. The books include suggestions for the innovative use of everyday ressources, popular books and stories.Knowledge and understanding of the world cuts across all of the EYFS guiding themes and this book will encourage practitioners to think about and develop their own understanding of the implications for inclusion, respect for oneself and for others irrespective of ethnicity, culture or religion, home language, family background, learning difficulties, gender, disabilities or abilities. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Exploration and Investigation Chapter 2: Design and Making Chapter 3: ICT Chapter 4: Time Chapter 5: Place Chapter 6: Communities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Creative Development in the Early Years
Book SynopsisThe Practical Guidance in the Early Years Foundation Stage series will assist practitioners in the smooth and successful implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage.Each book gives clear and detailed explanations of each aspect of Learning and Development and encourages readers to consider each area within its broadest context to expand and develop their own knowledge and good practice.Practical ideas and activities for all age groups are offered along with a wealth of expertise of how elements from the practice guidance can be implemented within all early years settings. The books include suggestions for the innovative use of everyday ressources, popular books and stories.The clear and practical information in this book will help practitioners in supporting and developing the natural curiosity of children, helping them explore and express their own ideas through a variety of activities including music art and dance. The author explores the balance between the necessary freedoms of choice that creativity requires and the control which thoughtful practitioners must exert and offers ideas for building children's imaginations through play.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Being Creative: Responding to Experiences, Expressing and Communicating Ideas Chapter 2: Exploring Media and Materials Chapter 3: Creating Music and Dance: Especially Song Chapter 4: Developing Imagination and imaginative Play Chapter 5: Creativity in the Wider Curriculum Chapter 6: Critical Thinking and the Creative Child: Challenges and Dilemmas
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Problem Solving Reasoning and Numeracy in the
Book SynopsisThe Practical Guidance in the Early Years Foundation Stage series will assist practitioners in the smooth and successful implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage.Each book gives clear and detailed explanations of each aspect of Learning and Development and encourages readers to consider each area within its broadest context to expand and develop their own knowledge and good practice.Practical ideas and activities for all age groups are offered along with a wealth of expertise of how elements from the practice guidance can be implemented within all early years settings. The books include suggestions for the innovative use of everyday ressources, popular books and stories.This book offers an in-depth understanding of children's thinking skills from a psychological perspective. The book introduces the Learning Tools model, a vital cognitive tool used by children to learn and solve problems, and gives practical ideas on how practitioners can use everyday materials to promote problem solving and early numeracy skills through play.Readers are encouraged to reflect on their own practice and understanding to help them provide learning opportunities to meet the unique needs of all children in their setting. Trade Review"...Written by Anita Hughes, a chartered educational psychologist, who offers in-depth understanding of children's thinking skills from a psychological perspective. It introduces the learning tools model, a vital cognitive tool used by children to learn and solve problems. It also offers practical ideas on how to use everyday materials to promote problem-solving and early numeracy skills through play. Readers are encourages to reflect on their own practice and understanding to help them provide learning opportunities to meet the unique needs of all children in their setting." - Early Years Update (Issue 65, February 2009)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Understanding how children think Chapter 2: The Learning Tools Chapter 3: Numbers as labels for counting Chapter 4: Calculating Chapter 5: Shape, Space and Measures
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Reception Year in Action Revised and Updated
Book SynopsisThe Reception Year in Action will take the understanding of outdoor play, teaching and learning to a new level. Everyone who is involved with early years education and care should read this book!' Helen Bilton, University of Reading, UKThis is a fantastic book... it shows exactly how an excellent reception class is organised and run. There is a clear theoretical underpinning to the practice described and the photos really bring the text alive.'Margaret Edgington, independent early years consultant and trainer Children thrive when a reception class is organised and managed by the adults, but led by the children. They learn and develop if they are in a stimulating environment which is carefully organised and when observations are used to support their next steps'. They take risks and surpass expectations when they have clear routines and boundaries, combined with a supportive staff and an enabling environment. The RecepTable of Contents1. September; 2. October; 3. November; 4. December; 5. January; 6. February; 7. March; 8. April; 9. May; 10. June; 11. July
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Taylor & Francis People Under Three
Book SynopsisServices for young children have gone through a period of rapid transformation in recent years, which have been paralleled by great advances in our knowledge of early child development. However, care and education in the first three years of life continues to be a neglected area.Thoroughly updated to take account of key policy and practice changes in childcare provision, this landmark text translates child development theory and research into everyday practice. All the practical ideas in the book have been developed and tested in nurseries, family and childrenâs centres and include the importance of providing opportunities for adventurous and exploratory play for babies and toddlers, understanding and responding to children's emotional needs and offering personalized and sensitive care. The book also explores different ways of working with parents and the role of early years settings and practitioners in helping to keep children safe. It includes chapters on: Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Childcare Policy and Visions of Childhood 2. The Key Person 3. Planning Spaces for Living, Learning and Playing 4. Babies in Day Care 5. The Treasure Basket 6. The Second Year of Life 7. Heuristic Play with Objects 8. Children in their Third Year 9. Mealtimes 10. Out of Doors 11. Leading and Managing a Childcare Centre 12. Building a Staff Team 13. Bridging the Child’s Two Worlds 14. Safeguarding Children 15. Elinor Goldschmied
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Technology and Digital Media in the Early Years
Book SynopsisA Co-Publication of Routledge and NAEYCTechnology and Digital Media in the Early Years offers early childhood teacher educators, professional development providers, and early childhood educators in pre-service, in-service, and continuing education settings a thought-provoking guide to effective, appropriate, and intentional use of technology with young children. This book provides strategies, theoretical frameworks, links to research evidence, descriptions of best practice, and resources to develop essential digital literacy knowledge, skills and experiences for early childhood educators in the digital age.Technology and Digital Media in the Early Years puts educators right at the intersections of child development, early learning, developmentally appropriate practice, early childhood teaching practices, children's media research, teacher education, and professional development practices. The book is based on current researcTrade Review"This well researched book certainly provides much food for thought for early years educators, and it challenges us all to reflect, question and research the possibilities technology and digital media bring to children’s learning and how they impact on their development." – Barbara Isaacs, Montessori International "Technology and Digital Media in the Early Years is a treasure; the content is grounded in learning theory and covers a wide range of technologies and educational practices. An added benefit is the incredible supply of digital and print resources. This book should be required reading for parents, teachers, media developers, and policy makers who are responsible for the next generation’s education." - Barbara T. Bowman, Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Development, Erikson Institute, USA"At last, a comprehensive, intelligent resource for teachers, teacher educators, and the field in general that discusses both the here and now and the potential of technology and digital media in early childhood education. While offering a snapshot of the ever-changing digital world of devices, software, and websites, Donohue and colleagues have, more importantly, gifted the field with a structured, multidimensional framework that is the clearest path to date for professional decision-making about technology and digital media choices that enhance learning for young children. There are no boogeymen in the closet snatching childhood from the young. It is possible for every child to have access when teachers are supported in their application of developmentally appropriate practices to yet another dynamic educational tool." - Jerlean E. Daniel, Early Childhood Consultant (NAEYC Executive Director from 2010 to 2013)Table of ContentsDedicationForeword by Ed GreenePrefaceAcknowledgementsContributorsList of Abbreviations and AcronymsList of figures with captionsIntroduction: Technology and Digital Media in the Early YearsChip DonohuePART ITechnology and Young ChildrenEditor’s introduction1. What Would Fred Rogers Say?David Kleeman and Dr. Alice Wilder2. Technology as a Tool for Social-Emotional Development: What We Can Learn from Fred Rogers’ ApproachHedda Sharapan3. Technology and Digital Media as Tools for Teaching and Learning in the Digital AgeChip Donohue4. Teaching with Technology: Preparing Early Childhood Educators for the Digital Age Chip Donohue and Roberta Schomburg 5. What Would Maria Montessori Say About the iPad? Theoretical Frameworks for Children's Interactive MediaWarren Buckleitner6. Connecting Child Development and Technology: What We Know and What It MeansMichael Robb and Alexis R. LauricellaPart IITechnology in the ClassroomEditor’s introduction7. Media Literacy in Early Childhood Education: Inquiry-Based Technology IntegrationFaith Rogow8. Pioneering Literacy in the Digital AgeLisa Guernsey and Michael H. Levine9. Technology to Support Dual Language LearnersKaren N. Nemeth10. Including All Young Children in the Technology-supported Curriculum: A UDL Technology Integration Framework for 21st Century ClassroomsHoward P. Parette and Craig Blum 11. Stepping into STEM with Young Children: Simple Robotics and Programming as Catalysts for Early LearningKate Highfield12. Innovate, Educate and Empower: New Opportunities with New TechnologiesMark Bailey and Bonnie Blagojevic13. Technology Tools for Teachers and Teaching: Innovative Practices and Emerging TechnologiesBrian Puerling and Angela FowlerPart IIITechnology Beyond the ClassroomEditor’s Introduction14. Technology as a Tool to Strengthen the Home-School ConnectionTamara Kaldor15. Technology as a Tool to Strengthen the CommunityLuisa M. Cotto16. Access, Content & Engagement: How Children’s Librarians Support Early Learning in the Digital AgeCen Campbell and Carisa Kluver17. Connected Educator – Connected Learner: The Evolving Roles of Teachers in the 21st Century and BeyondAmanda ArmstrongSubject IndexName Index
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Playmore Occupational Therapy (Pty) Ltd Born to Play Transcending Boredom into Play
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Gordon and Breach Early Child Care In Britain
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John Wiley & Sons Squandering Americas FutureWhy ECE Policy Matters for Equality Our Economy and Our Children
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John Wiley & Sons Healthy Learners A Whole Child Approach to Reducing Disparities in Early Education
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John Wiley & Sons Quiet at School An Educators Guide to Shy Children
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Supporting Children with Depression to Understand
Book SynopsisThe Get to Know Me' resources aim to support children, with those around them, who may have additional/special educational needs. They are designed to empower the professionals and adults who support those with identified needs. Developed by child psychologist Dr Louise Lightfoot, the series includes activities specific to anxiety, depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). In supporting the social and emotional health of students, it equips them with the ability to thrive, personally and academically. This book has been created for key adults (teachers, therapists and parents) as a complement to the picture book and draw along versions of Silver Matilda a traditional narrative story exploring thoughts, feelings and sensations experienced by many children with depression. The activities in this book offer practical tools and strategies to support the child and those around them in addition to the information specific to the condition to improve understanding Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Resource Pack Consultation Sheets Sections 1. Empathy versus Sympathy 2. Using puppets and play to explore emotions 3. True or false 4. Miracle Questions 5. Colour Your Feelings 6. Compliment Cards part 1 7. Compliment Cards part 2 8. Remember a time 9. Always, Never, Everybody 10. Miracle Questions 11. Feelings Sorter 12. Bridge to Success 13. Silver Matilda’s Activity Book 14. Silver Matilda Board Game
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Taylor & Francis Inc Reading A Basic Guide for Parents and Teachers Routledge Library Editions Literacy
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Taylor & Francis Reading and Loving Routledge Library Editions Literacy
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Taylor & Francis Messy Play in the Early Years
Book SynopsisCombining a rich theoretical foundation with practical tips, advice and case studies, Messy Play in the Early Years provides an informative and practical exploration of the unique qualities, characteristics and learning possibilities of messy play.Packed with valuable insights from research and theory, along with practitioner's experiences, this accessible book will bolster readers' understanding and appreciation of messy play and demonstrate how a range of material engagements can enhance young children's development and learning. Exploring an array of resources and a broad spectrum of approaches, including adult-and child-led inquiry, chapters consider how the specific sensory qualities of materials encourage problem-solving, scientific thinking, creativity, self-regulation and self-expression as children discover and make sense of new phenomena. With examples of international practice and reflective questions throughout, the book highlights a variety of approaches tTrade ReviewI loved reading this well-considered and thoroughly researched book. Sue Gascoyne gifts us with an accessible guidebook for travelling a really interesting journey through ‘the landscape of messy play’. Pulling together many ways of thinking to broaden how we look at messy play, it makes sense of this deeply significant sensory engagement - and transforms our ideas about what ‘messy’ really means. Through a lively combination of theoretical ideas with careful observations indoors and outdoors, we can see so much more of what children are really doing, feeling and thinking in their engagements with materials. We also come to realise that ‘materials’ are a great deal more than passive, non-active ‘stuff’, making the case for just how much materials matter in the lives of young children.Jan White, Professor of Practice, University of Wales Trinity St David, UKThis is an important book on an area of play which is often neglected within the literature on play. It is highly informative, supported with wonderful photographs of children engaging in the reality of messy play. It dispels many commonly held myths regarding this type of play whilst providing a theoretical underpinning which enables practitioners and students to justify their messy play provision. It offers a wealth of ideas for creating and evaluating messy play environments and materials and provides guidance for the adult role when engaging in this type of play. It is a valuable resource for both students, starting out on their early years’ journey, as well as practitioners wishing to develop their play practice.Dr Karen McInnes, Head of Learning, Teaching and Research, Norland, UKDrawing on her considerable expertise as a play therapist Sue Gascoyne shares a new understanding of the role of messy play as a protagonist in children’s play. Guaranteed to make the reader question their own understanding and interpretations of children’s material engagements, this book encourages them to reflect on their practice and challenges practitioners to make changes in their work practices. Sue offers readers a new lens which will help them recognise the significance for children of the world around them as place where joy, wonder and curiosity combine to inspire young children. This accessible, thought provoking and stimulating book was a joy to read.Menna Godfrey, Lead practitioner in a private kindergarten, UKAs a life-long believer in messy play for creativity, curiosity, growth and development, I am delighted to recommend this book for parents, teachers, clinicians and nursery workers. Too often children are told ‘don’t make a mess’, ‘be sure to clear up’, ‘don’t spill’, ‘that was a clean dress!’, which immediately stunts their expression, and makes them wary of crossing borders! This remarkable book gives us the why’s and wherefore’s of messy play, and ways of putting it into practice. It describes a myriad of techniques in an accessible way. It has my heart-felt support and recommendation.Sue Jennings, Professor of Play, European Federation of Dramatherapy, UKMessy Play is a fundamental part of early learning and it offers so many opportunities for learning and development that it really does need a central place in the classroom - and that's what this book encourages... I particularly like the layout of this book which makes it really easy to find the information you want, through the excellent use made of coloured feature boxes as well as plenty of bullet points and lots of photos - these really show the fun aspect of messy play! With its wealth of personal experience, this is a book which will encourage practitioners and parents to make good use of this superb teaching opportunity.Sarah Brew, Parents in TouchThis is a comprehensive book on ‘Messy Play’ – its theoretical roots, how to plan engagements, what to provide and clearing up. The book is beautifully illustrated with lots of tips about reluctant adults and children and how to encourage engagement. A feature I really liked was the use of ‘ARC’ (Autonomy, Relatedness and Competence) as an analytical framework throughout. Sue draws on play therapy to articulate some of the advantages to all children of engaging with messy playCath Arnold, Associate of Pen Green CentreThe book, Messy Play in the Early Years by Sue Gascoyne is a real treat for anyone wanting to delve and embark on a journey into messy play within the Early Years.It provides an in-depth and unique approach in exploring messy play. The journey begins with defining and challenging historical and contemporary conceptualisations of play. The model, Autonomy, Relatedness and Competence (ARC) is then discussed as a way of investigating and understanding messy play. Examples are used throughout as illustrative examples. As a play therapist and working in education, the author has the ability to articulate the sophisticated techniques that could be employed, going beyond the superficial of messy play, whilst retaining a voice, educators will resonate with. Specifically, chapter six, creating enabling environments for messy play suggests a messy play framework, proposing a sliding scale of provision rather than a ‘one size fits all approach’ often advocated when engaging in messy play. The author examines children’s understanding of intentions behind choices, and how autonomy could be enhanced. Additionally, messy play opportunities can be positioned at a macro level and the author uses vignettes to illustrate the essentials of Autonomy, Relatedness and Competence (ARC) and how they are relayed. This is further explored in the following chapter of inquiry-based learning, exploring how the child is faced and immersed in multi- layered possibilities during messy play. I would recommend this book to colleagues and would certainly be including it on UG and PG Childhood/ Early Childhood programme modules. An essential guide in the journey of messy play.Dr Amanda Norman, Senior Lecturer Interprofessional Studies, The University of Winchester, UKTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introducing Messy Play and Material Engagements Chapter 2: Messy Play and its Theoretical Roots Chapter 3: Investigating and Quantifying Messy Play Chapter 4: Patterns in Messy Play Use Chapter 5: Planning Enabling Messy Play Environments Chapter 6: Creating Enabling Environments for Messy Play Chapter 7: Materials Encounters and Inquiry-based Learning Chapter 8: Agency and Messy Play Chapter 9: Conclusion
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SAGE Publications Ltd A Quick Guide to Behaviour Management in the Early Years
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